FAME, FORTUNE OR FAITHFULNESS

I once walked along the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. As I walked across those famous names embedded in the sidewalk, the memories of those individuals were now passing under my feet. About the time I walked on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Mother Teresa...

THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS

In this life when pain and loss come, we are never without the effect of God’s restorative blessings if our heart remains pliable to His will. This is why we can praise the Lord no matter what comes our way. The life of Job is an example of the Lord’s restoration....

A GREAT STUPIDITY

Over the years, I’ve preached about the potter’s wheel in Jeremiah 18. When I preached the story, I stopped short of the other events in that chapter. I wanted to portray a word of hope. But there is more to the story than just a pot being reformed. It was the events...

WHEN THE FUTURE ARRIVES

Just before His arrest, Jesus was giving final instructions to His disciples. He said, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future” (John...

RECOGNIZING JESUS

Our religious traditions and personal opinions about matters of faith do not always reveal the Lord. They can make us falsely assume we have discovered all there is to know, but that is a faulty and blinding assumption to make. When John the Baptist was calling out...